The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-03
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.

work.
We live in an age when every one is
in hurry. The leisurely life Of half a
century age has almost vanished from
this Western Hemisphere. The art of
resting is we'll nigh lost art. Men are
in haste to get rich, in haste to get
pleasure. in haste to do every thing but
to live for God. We have almost a
minimum Of holidays. and we spend
them in . laborious hurry. We are
losing our Sabbath, for the smoke Of
eur factories and mills weaves it's dark
web over our homes from Monday
morning - Monday morning. Our
steam-cars rush with smoking axlcs
through the whole seven days and
nights Of the week. The result of this
haste is that men are wearing out, and
a vast amount of work is done that
resembles many Of our modern build
ings, it is too quickly done to be perma-
nent. We need not go far to find that
certain nemesis waits upon the sin of
excessive haste and that the old adage
..haste makes waste" is as true as
when our fathers coined it.
But wish to bring out the truth
now in its individual aspect. Many a
young man irremediably mars his life
by haste in assuming his life's work.
This boy wants to be lawyer, and is
eager to begin his chosen profession.
He will not go to college, for that takes
time. Hence he enters upon an arduous
and noble calling with faculties undis-
ciplined by vigorous preparatory train
ing. and in time settles into q small
pettifogger, or rises into strength and
eminence after years Of toll, with the
consciousness that he is hampered
through all his life by want of early
preparation. Another lad wants to be
q doctor, another merchant, and so
on. Too young to choose wisely, and
with fathers too busy to be wise for
them, these callow youths waste not
time alone, but much besides, because
of their haste to begin that for which
they are not fit. l went into a drug
store once and asked for some fine soap.
I was shown a dark brown, almost
transparent ball, for which price was
demanded that seemed to me exhorbit-
ant. asked the druggist why it was
SO costly. He told me that the soap
was made in England, and that every
piece was carefully laid up in drying
room for full year before it was put
on the market. The consequence was,
he said, that the soap was more dura.
BILE than any other, and was therefore
cheaper than that which seemed to cost
. less. He said further that American
soaps were hurried into the market &c
soon after they were manufactured thai
they were soft and perishable. The drug
gist unconsciously preached me ser.
mon. When see man doing imperfect
work because of imperfect preparation,
say: THAT soap came too soon to the
market" ..
My friends. learn this valuable lesson
that time spent in fitting yourselves fol
your vocation in life is not time wasted
but time saved. II you are called Il
preach. heed the call. but remember
the call to preach Is, first Of all, cal
to prepare for preaching. II you art
called to teach, do not say nay to thu
call, but first of all see to it that yol
are fit. When God wants o man o.
woman for a great work in the world
he'does not lay the work on crude
untempered soul. Moses was schoolet
forty years in Egypt, and forty year.
in the desert, before he was summoned
to lead Israel out of bondage. Ou
blessed Lord was full thirty years olt
before he began his ministry.
The principle that good work de
nlands thorough preparation, and tina
such preparation is true saving o
time, 10 q principle capable Of wide ap
plication. Let each of you make tn
fit duplication for himseh.-Rev. PhiliI
n. M0DosN.